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Essential Questions

Which one of the grades (9th-12th) might be impacted most academic wise due to smoking?

How much might it academically affect students grades?

What if students knew that it affected their grades?

Should schools step in to help students quit smoking?

Why would this information help 9th-12th grade students?

Look at all these chemicals. Could these help make you "More Stupider?"

Yes or No. Do you think that smoking in high school can affect students grades? Feel free to put your opininon. Explain why if you can.

My Research Topic

            After coming up with many ideas, I finally narrowed it down to five choices. After that, it was so hard to choose one. I asked Ms. McKoy what I should do and she told me what her favorite one was. I kept her opinion in my mind and thought for a while. I finally agreed to pick the one that she liked. “Can smoking effect how well you do in school?”

            I realized that my topic was too broad. After watching the power point about broad and narrow topics, I used the five w’s to help narrow down. Who, what, when, where, and why. For who, I said smokers. I said smoking while in high school for what. My when is form 2008-2012. Because I don’t want to have too little or too much information, I am only doing my research on the east coast. I am doing this topic because I might be able to convince students to quit smoking if they know that it might affect their grades. After I did my five w’s I made my topic more specific. “Can smoking effect how well 9^th-12^th graders perform academically?”

            The reason I chose this as my topic is because almost everyone in my family smokes. My mom, brother, uncle, and even some friends that I consider family. My dad used to smoke but he quit a couple years ago. I have asked them to quit because I don’t want anything to happen to them but I can’t quite get them to quit. My brother, Shaman, just graduated and it got me wondering if he could have gotten better grades if he hadn’t been smoking.